Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Outcomes: The Importance of Analytic Approach

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1140-1155

  Burchinal, Margaret R ^a   Clarke Stewart, K Alison ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

analytic methods; maternal employment and child outcomes; multiple testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; COLOR PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARENTING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 34548814134     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.5.1140     Document Type: Article

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